The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has a responsibility to protect Americans’ freedom to vote, but recent actions by the DOJ are instead endangering these freedoms by attempting to seize sensitive voter information from states in what is an improper overreach by the federal government.
Back to topSince the beginning of his second term, President Trump and his administration have renewed their efforts to undermine Americans’ freedom to vote.
The current administration has sought to seize voter data from the states, unlawfully change the way our elections are run, and attack voting rights.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is pushing back on these...
Despite its limited role of enforcing federal election laws in elections, the U.S. Department of Justice has demanded expansive voter information from at least 39 states. DOJ is now attempting to use the federal courts to require states to comply with those unlawful demands, by suing eight states for personal, private voter data.
DOJ is not investigating specific potential violations of the law, but rather, is attempting an extraordinary expansion of federal collection of sensitive voter data, without adhering to state and federal protections for voters’ data or respect for the state’s primary role in election administration.
The U.S. Constitution clearly gives the power to regulate and administer elections to the states or Congress, not the executive branch. These actions by DOJ trample on our government’s separation of powers and system of federalism.
Campaign Legal Center filed motions to intervene in two of these cases on behalf of the League of Women Voters chapters in Maine and New York, to push back on this unlawful federal encroachment and protect sensitive voter data.
